When it comes to adding some distinction to your home, few styles provide the dramatic touch that Baroque art does. Some designers use highly embellished, ornamental pieces to complete a room, while ...
In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (1660s), oil on canvas, 41.15 x 53 inches, post-conservation image. National Gallery of ...
ANTWERP, Belgium — This low-lying, discreetly wealthy city tends to a restrained approach to art and design today: Its riverside shops are full of stark, spare furniture, and its renowned fashion ...
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...
Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells the ...
Who: Artist and educator Tom Dowling’s artwork covers the spectrum of collage, painting, drawing, sculpture and photography. He has been an exhibiting artist for over 40 years with studios in Costa ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. They might have left it at that. Instead they began again, ...
170 x 120 cm. (66.9 x 47.2 in.) This is the latest work, from this Thai superstar. His work is getting harder and harder for this gallery to offer, as all of his recent shows have sold out. MLA ...